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EDITORIAL: HIPAA hamstrings Covid reports

During the past year, there’s been shortage of requests for information concerning the Covid-19 pandemic. When the virus first started spreading in area nursing homes, people wanted to know which ones, how many cases and what was being done. People also wanted to know which businesses had employees who tested positive for Covid-19. And now that vaccines are available, The Paris News gets regular phone calls and emails wanting to know where they are, how many doses are coming and why reporters aren’t covering the vaccination clinics each week. The Paris News has provided all the information it legally can. Despite TV and film depictions of journalists getting the story no matter what, there are legal lines the newspaper will not cross to get a story. One of those lines is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, passed in August 1996.

To mask or not to mask?: Local schools split on whether to continue masking

The lifting of Gov. Greg Abbott’s statewide mask mandate Wednesday as active Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to fall has left the decision as to whether to require students to

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